PM Dung receives IMF chief representative in Vietnam; President praises forces for keeping public order; Parliamentary cooperation to strengthen UK-Vietnam relations

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City government is considering a recommendation by the Department of Transport to levy an entry fee on all private vehicles going to the downtown area, a proposal that has come under fire from experts.

VietNamNet Bridge – Joyous smiles spread across the face of nine-year-old Pham Thi Ngoc Diem and her friends as they washed their hands in fresh, clean water at Phuong Cuu 3 Primary School in central Ninh Thuan Province.

Minh grabs his 9th men's singles title; Table tennis team trains for SEA Games; Teen weightlifter receives honours; Hai returns as Binh Duong coach

Doan Nguyen Duc, who has been put by the prestigious Wall Street Journal (WSJ) into the list of the region’s most influential executives and officials, said that he always works hard, but this is not for money.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nam Dinh won the trophy at the Thanh Nien Newspaper-sponsored National U-21 Football Championship after beating Binh Duong 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out on Sunday in Binh Duong Province.

VietNamNet Bridge – Local police remanded nine people in custody for protesting against the pollution of the environment by Lam Thach 2 Cement Factory, owned by Quang Ninh Cement and Construction Co Ltd.

At least 14 people died, 11 others were missing and more than three million people were affected in rain-triggered flooding in southwestern Sichuan Province as of 2 p.m. Monday, the local government said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam and China want to bring bilateral defence relations to a new height, said Lieut. Gen. Ngo Xuan Lich, Head of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) General Department of Politics.

The Mekong Delta is emerging as a tourism investment hotspot.

VietNamNet Bridge – For the first time, male models of all generations will gather in one show.

Cooperating to develop services on social networks will bring social networks’ owners and content providers (CP) the opportunities to access the large community of netizens and earn big money.

The Ministry of Finance (MOF) has officially refuted the suggestions made by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT), on the issues relating to the credit policy to help ease the difficulties burdening enterprises.

"The Lion King 3-D," a Disney animated film which first hit the screen in 1994 and re- leased in 3-D format over the weekend, performed exceptionally well and dethroned last week's top earner "Contagion" with a solid gross.

The Mekong Delta provinces will increase the combined capacity of their ports system from 15.7 million tonnes in 2010 to 28 million tonnes in 2020.

More than 400 people, including 26 tourists, have been rescued in the northeast Indian state of Sikkim after Sunday's 6.8 magnitude earthquake, the Indo-Asian News Service reported Monday.

Seven people, including six men and one woman, were arrested as part of a "large pre-planned" counter-terrorism raid by police in the British city of Birmingham, local police announced on Monday.

GM stops making Daewoo cars in Vietnam; Association suggests restructuring banks; 14 European countries invest in Hanoi; Operations resume at Dung Quat Refinery; Ministry permits massive imports of high-grade salt  

A delegation of the Cambodian Royal Army headed by General Meoung Samphan, State Secretary for the Defence Ministry, is on a working visit to Vietnam from Sept. 18-24.

The Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development of Viet Nam (Agribank) plans to provide about VND5 trillion (US$240 million) in loans to the domestic coffee sector.

At least seven people have died and 22 others were injured in a southern county of China's Tibet Autonomous Region after a strong earthquake centered in the state of Sikkim in northern India hit on Sunday evening.

Five people were killed after a strong earthquake shook eastern parts of Nepal on Sunday evening, police said.

A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying three astronauts returned to the Earth Friday, the Mission Control Center outside Moscow confirmed.

The toll from the powerful earthquake in the northeast Indian state of Sikkim has risen to at least 26 while hundreds were reportedly injured, according to local media reports Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ngoc Thach’s Gold Prize at the Vietnam Super Model 2010 competition is not enough for her to representative Vietnam at the Miss Earth 2011 pageant.